Bangladesh’s fuel crunch is largely the government’s fault

Bangladesh’s current fuel crisis is being described by parts of the government as a problem of panic buying or syndicates. Those factors exist. But they are secondary. The core of the crisis is supply-side mismanagement, sharpened by delayed price correction. And the delay matters because it was political, not technical. The BNP government chose in […] The post Bangladesh’s fuel crunch is largely the government’s fault appeared first on Asia Times.